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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.
Social language
Derivative
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Achievement test
2. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Anna Gillingham
Linguistic Method
Prefix
Semantics
3. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Prefix
Cedilla
Sight Words
4. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Modification
Six basic types of syllables
Cedilla
James Hinshelwood
5. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Keith Stanovich
Three Layers of Language
Closed Syllable
Suffix
6. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
Accent
Multisensory
Middle English
Chall's Stage 4
7. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia
Sight Words
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Universal Screening
Accuracy
8. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
Simultaneous teaching
RTI
Battery
Grade equivalents
9. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.
Sight Words
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Suffix
Criterion-Referenced Test
10. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
[-'le
Multisensory
Raw score
Attention
11. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat
Universal Screening
Cognitive Assessment
Semantics
Quadrigraph
12. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school
Phoneme
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Auditory Processing
Syntax
13. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Kinesthetic
Stanine Scores
Mastery level
Criterion-Referenced Test
14. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents
Attention
Grapheme
Social language
Phonemic/ decodable words
15. Whole body learning
Synthetic Instruction
Kinesthetic
Accommodation
Modern English
16. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness
James Hinshelwood
Sound Symbol Association
Dyslexia
Frank Smith
17. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Components of Reading Instruction
Achievement test
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
18. Ability to understand and express spoken language
WRAT
Middle English
Oral Language
Standard deviation
19. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Breve
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Vowel
Closed Syllable
20. English as a second language
ESL
Funding
Norm-referenced tests
Orthography
21. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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22. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Syllable Instruction
Diagnostic Teaching
Composite Score
Texas Education Code 38.003
23. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin
Ability
Great Vowel Shift
IDEA
Old English
24. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Texas Education Code 38.003
NICHD
Trigraph
Vr
25. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Pre-English
Attention
James Hinshelwood
Orthography
26. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Grade equivalents
Old English
Kinesthetic
27. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Quadrigraph
Anglo Saxon
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
IEP
28. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together
Matthew Effect
Phonics approach
Phoneme
Stanine Scores
29. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer
Criterion-Referenced Test
Ability
Criterion referenced tests
WIATII
30. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.
Universal Screening
Cognition
Closed Syllable
Orthography
31. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)
Combination
Top-down Reading Approach
Tilde
Middle English
32. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss
Latin layer of language
Norm-Referenced Test
Mathew Effect
Direct Instruction
33. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Phonemic/ decodable words
Profile
Consonant
Phonics approach
34. Wide Range Achievement Test
RTI
Matthew Effect
WRAT
Standardized test
35. State Board of Eduation
Frank Smith
Vowel
Percentile/ percentile rank
SBOE
36. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Syntax
Towre
Accent
IMSLEC
37. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Standardized test
NICHD
WRAT
Keith Stanovich
38. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Old English
Orthography
Profile
Derivative
39. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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40. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy
Base Word
Standard deviation
Progress Monitoring
Funding
41. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.
Multisensory
Derived Score
Phonological Awareness
Diagnostic tests
42. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
Greek layer of language
Battery
Tactile
Matthew Effect
43. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.
Keith Stanovich
Suffix
Old English
Visual Learners
44. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Rate
Visual Learners
Phonemic Awareness
Composite Score
45. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Phonics
Criterion referenced tests
VAKT
46. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi
Six basic types of syllables
Phonics approach
VV
Tilde
47. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.
Syllable
Quadrigraph
Orthography
Derived Score
48. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Vowel
Frank Smith
Dyslexia
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
49. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Criterion-Referenced Test
ESL
Base Word
Synthetic Instruction
50. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Cedilla
Middle English
Social language
WIATII